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Fiction Updated
Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics
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1996
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Fiction Updated offers approaches to fiction and poetics that, in an imaginary topography of contemporary humanities, dwell at a distance from both the mimetic theory of literature and deconstruction.
Author / Editor information
Mihailescu Calin-Andrei :
Calin-Andrei Mihailescu is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Modern Languages Department, University of Western Ontario.Hamarneh Walid :
Walid Hamarneh is an assistant professor in the Arabic and Comparative Literature Departments, University of Texas, Austin.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Contributors
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Introduction: Under the Jealous Gaze of Truth
3 - PART 1. FICTIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES
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1. Are Fictional Worlds Possible?
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2. Questions About the Nature of Fiction
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3. Fortress Fiction
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4. Literary Fictions and Philosophical Theories: The Possible-Worlds Story
48 - PART 2. MODELS
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5. On Fictional Discourse
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6. The Perception of Fictional Worlds
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7. Beyond Reality and Fiction? The Fate of Dualism in the Age of (Mass) Media
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8. Models, Madness, and the Hereafter
105 - PART 3. NAMES, GENRE, GENDER
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9. Characters and Their Versions
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10. Naming Names in Telling Tales
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11. Fictionality, Narration, and the Question of Genres
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12. Narratology, Narratological Criticism, and Gender
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13. The Renaissance Dialogue and Its Zero-Degree-Fictionality
165 - PART 4. FICTIONS AND HISTORIES
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14. Signposts in Oral Epic: Metapragmatic and Metasemantic Signals
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15. Of Worlds and Nutshells: On Casanova's Icosameron
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16. Ironies of History: The joke of Milan Kundera
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17. The Politics of Impossible Worlds
213 - PART 5. POETICS
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18. Thoughts on Aristotle's Poetics
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19. Chronotopes in Diegesis
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20. Deconstructing Bakhtin
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21. Scratching the Bronze Mirror: Looking for Traces of Fictionality in Chinese Poetics
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22. Formalist and Structuralist Activity in Poland: Tradition and Progress
274 - PART 6. DOLEZEL AND HIS WORLDS
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23. An Improbable Side by Side: Dolezel and Borges in Prague
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24. Lubomfr Dolezel' s Contribution to Contemporary Literary Studies
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Bibliography
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